Sylvania



(No Model.)

O. A. WEEKS & O. POEHL;

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Patented Feb. 24, 1891.

NITEI) STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES A. WVEEKS AND CHARLES FOEHL, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENN- SYLVANIA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 447,219, dated February24, 1891.

Application filed March 4, 1890. Serial No. 342,546- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, CHARLES A. VEEKS and CHARLES FoEHL, ofPhiladelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fire-Arms; and we dohereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same.

Our invention relates to pistols.

It consists of two parts, both applicable to the same kind of pistol.The first part is an improvement in the retracting-spring of thefiring-pin and the second an improvement in the rebounding mechanism.

Our said invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whichFigure 1 represents a pistol in side elevation with the side of thecasing and grip broken away. Fig. 2 represents the hammer drawn backnearly to the firing-point. Fig. 3 is a section showing the position ofthe spring which retracts the firing-pin.

In the drawings the firing-pin is shown at a. Heretofore such pins havebeen placed in a rabbeted or shouldered cavity, made large enough toreceive a coiled spring surrounding the pin and placed between a flangeon the pin and a shoulder about the bottom of' the cavity, or such pinshave been connected to the hammer, so as to be held back by the hammerwhen at half or safety cock. By a simple construction we avoid therabbeting of the cavity for the firing-pin, and hold the pin in placeindependently of the hammer by means of a spring arranged outside thefiringpin, attached thereto, and adapted to draw the pin back uponrebound of the hammer. The particular form of the spring is notmaterial, provided it be arranged to operate under conditions just abovespecified; but we have shown a simple, economical, and practicable form.This consists of a spring of bent wire.- The orifice for the firing-pinis a plain hole through the breech-piece, and the firingpin is a simplepin a, substantially cylindrical and having a point and a head 0. Thehead has a lateral hole, which receives the laterally-bent end of theretracting-spring d. This spring has a sinusoidal curve extendingdownward in an arm, which bears against a boss on the wall of thechamber, and at the end is bent laterally and enters a hole in saidwall. The spring bears against the boss Z, (shown in dotted lines,) andis held in place thereby and by its connections at the ends, as beforeexplained. It also holds in place the firing-pin and retracts it as thehammer is drawn back to the half or safety cook, but yields when thehammer falls. The spring is simply a bent wire of steel. The pin is aplain pin, and the parts mutually support each other without directconnection of the pin with the hammer.

Our special construction of the rebounding mechanism involves areduction of the number of parts. The hammer B is pivoted on a pin e,which passes through the bosses Z Z on the inner faces of the walls ofthe cavity, the hammer being supported between these bosses, leaving aspace on each side for the spring, one of the bosses supporting thespring, as above explained. The hammer is provided with means, as shown,for cooking and firing, as shown in the patent of Foehl, No. 417,672,dated December 17, 1889; but the invention in neither part is confinedto this special form.

' The rear and lower edge of the hammer is cut away, as shown, in theform of a rabbet g. This rabbet extends above and below the pivot of thehammer and is inclined to correspond to the direction of the mainspringh. The upper part of the rabbet is undercut to form a groove n, in whichrests the plain end of the spring. The end is made somewhat thinner thanthe groove, so as to have some motion therein. hen the hammer is drawnback, the end of the spring bears in the groove and above the pivot.tVhen the hammer has reached its extreme forwardlimit in firing, thelower part of the rabbet below the pivot bears on the spring, and theleverage is therefore in opposite direction, and this is su fficient togive the necessary rebound. The movement of the end of the spring in thegroove is sufficient for this rebound movement.

We claim as our invention 1. In combination, the hammer, thenormally-retracted firing-pin, and means for retracting said pin andholding its rear end in position, consisting of. a spring connected atIn testimony uwhereofi wye hav e signed our one end to the pin and atthe other end to the nainresito'zthisspecification in the presence of 10frame. two s'uhscribifig witnesses;

2. The hammer supported on its pivot be- CHAS. A. WEEKS.

'tweenbosses, the firing-pin, and the spring CHARLES FOEHL.

ing past the bosses, and connected to the pin, FRANKSOHMI DT,

arranged by the side of the hammer, extend- Witnesses: substantially asdescribed. I HARRY J. FRANZ.

